Antje Bischof, MD: Accelerated Cord Atrophy Precedes Conversion to SPMS in RRMS
March 19th 2019The Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California San Francisco spoke about a longitudinal study that evaluated the utility of spinal cord atrophy measured from brain scans as a surrogate marker for impending conversion to secondary progressive MS.
Dina Katabi, PhD: Biosensors for Measuring Disease Activity in MS and Other Neurological Disorders
March 13th 2019The Andrew & Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT spoke about a new way of continuous monitoring for patients with MS and neurodegenerative disorders, discovering changes in quality of life and new biomarkers.
Fred Lublin, MD: Current Challenges in MS
March 11th 2019The director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for MS at Mount Sinai School of Medicine spoke about the major issues in MS right now: being able to individually prognosticate, moving toward developing better therapies for a progressive disease, and repairing the damage to the nervous system.